Your Demat & Trading Accounts
The accounts you need, what each one holds, and how to open them safely.
Lessons
- Demat vs Trading AccountOne holds your shares, the other places your orders. You need both, and here is why.
- Opening Your First AccountThe documents, the KYC, and the choices that matter when you pick a broker.
- Discount vs Full-Service BrokersCheap and self-serve, or expensive and hand-held — which one fits you.
- NSDL & CDSL: Where Your Shares LiveYour shares are electronic records in a depository, not in your broker’s custody. Why that matters.
- Keeping Your Account SafeThe handful of habits that prevent the most common ways investors lose money to fraud.